The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-21 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. Her Majesty's steam storeship Industry sailed on Friday from Woolwich, ialen with victualling stores and iron buoys for moorings in the South Atlantic stations. She also took a few head of oxen from the south of France for experimental breeding purposes in the Isle of Ascension. During the last few days a large supply of the 5A inch and 6 inch iron armour pates have been sent in to Chatham dockyard from the Millwall Ironworks and the establishment of Messrs. John Brown and Co., Sheffield, for the Lord Warden and the Bellerophon, ironcased frigates, building in the dockyard. In anticipation of the heavy demand which will be made on the factory department of the dockyard when the works connected with the Bellerophon are fairly in hand, a number of addi tional mechanics will shortly be entered at the yard, and several new machines of enormous power arc now in course of erection for the preparation of armour plates. . . The Talia, Turkish Imperial yacht, lying ;at Woolwich, has been open for public inspection dur ing the past three days, and has been visited during that time by about 12,000 persons. It was calculated that about half that number were admitted on board on Friday. The Arsenal pier was thronged during the whole of the day, and large numbers failed in obtaining admission. She is now closed to the pub lic, in order to complete the arrangements for her departure for Constantinople, appointed for to-day. The Talia was on Thursday visited by Rear-Ad. rairal Eden and the Hon. J. R. Drummond, Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Their Lordships subsequently repaired to the dockyard, and officially inspected the shipbuilding departments, visiting the plate-bending sheds, in which the armour casing is being prepared for Mr. Reed's corvette Favourite, and also the Enterprise and Pallas, and the various works in progress. An Admiralty order had been previously received notifying that the annual establishment of the yard should be dis charged, in conformity with regulations recently issued. Accordingly about 400 mechanics and labourers, coming under the denomination of hired men, assembled in the open space ft-exiting the official quarters, and were informed viva voce by Mr. Turner, the master shipwright, that, having ful filled the terms of their engagement up to that peeiod, he was ordered to give each man his dis missal from the service. The whole of the men were forthwith re-engaged and were again entered as hired men. These regulations are put into effect in order to relieve the Government of the onus of superannuation. This step has called forth some severe animadversions, as many of the men had been in the service upwards of a quarter of a cen tury, and hoped shortly to be entered on the per manent establishment, by which the whole of their time would have been taken into consideration for retirement. Their Lordships, having inspected the paddlewheel sloop Hecate, pronounced her unfit for further service. Her ironwork is eaten with rust and her timbers are quite rotten. She is consequently to be taken to pieces. On Saturday Rear-Admiral S. Robinson, the Con troller of the Navy, visited Chatham dockyard for the purpose of inspecting the progress made in the way of fitting the various vessels building and pre-- paring for sea at that establishment. After transact ing basiness at the office of Capt. Stewart, C. 8., the superintendent of the establishment, the Controller directed his attention to the Bombay, 67, now in dry dock, where she has been several months fitting for an Admiral's flag. Most of the work on board is now completed, and in about a fortnight she will be reedy to leave the dock. The Admiralty have di rected her condensers to be strengthened by means of tension bolts, which will be fixed athwart ship, and this work will be executed by Messrs. Hum phreys, Tennant, and Co., the makers of the engines. After inspecting the Cadmus, 22, 400 horse-power, which is undergoing some heavy repairs in the ad joining dock, the Controller visited the east end of the yard, where the ironclad frigate Lord Warden is now being put in frame, and afterwards embarked on board the City of Rochester steamer and proceeded down the harbour to the Achilles iron frigate, which is being brought forward for sea with as much de spatch as the resources of the dockyard will permit. Her Majesty's screw frigate Ariadne, 26, 3,214 tons, 800 horse-power, Capt. E. W. Vansittart, was put out of commission and the crew paid off in the Medway on Saturday under the superintendence of Capt. C. Wise, naval aide-de-camp to the Queen. The Ariadne has been upwards of four years in com mission, and has been attached principally to the North America and West India squadrons, and for some time was engaged in operations on the Mexi can coast. Notwithstanding the length of time she was in commission, she has lost but few of her crew from death or sickness, and most of the officers who joined the ship at the time she was commissioned re turn in her. Three of the crew have been recom mended to the Admiralty for medals and the accom panying gratuities for long service and exemplary conduct. The crew were paid off in a most orderly and expeditions manner, and nearly the whole of them immediately left by train to spend their six weeks' holiday with their friends. The Ariadne goes into the fourth division of the Chatham Steam Reserve. The Bulldog paddle, Capt Chas. Walker, will be docked this morning for the purpose of having her valves examined prior to her going out of harbour. She will soon:be ready for sea. The Adventure troopship, Cept. Waddilove, is still in the hands of the dockyard officials and along side the jetty ; she is, however, nearly completed in her fittings, and will probably embark naval super numeraries and a few troops (detachments) to-mor ro or and leave on Wednesday or Thursday for China, calling at Plymouth and Dublin. Very extensive alterations have been made in the internal fittings of this ship, and her ventilation is much improved. The subjoined is notified as the amended scale of allowances to officers of her Majesty's ships on the East India station, who may qualify themselves to act as interpreters in Oriental languages, sanctioned by the India Office :—Per Mensem,—Class I. For Hindostanee or Persian, 180 rupees, moonshee allowance ; 50 rupees, interpreter's allowance. Class 11. For Arabic, 180 rupees, moonshee allow ance; 100 rupees, interpreter's allowance. Class 111. For Hindostanee, Arabic, and Persian (three languages), ISO rupees, moonshee allowance; 200 rupees interpreter's allowance. In appointing in• terpreters preference will be given to Class 111. over Class 11., and to Class 11. over Class I. The Highfiyer, screw, after having had very ex tensive repairs in Mr. White's yard at Cowes, was towed into Portsmouth harbour on Saturday. It is expected she will immediately be brought forward and. fitted out, in readiness for being commissioned. The America, target ship, having been repaired and made available for further eervice, was un docked on Saturday. She will resume her station this morning, and some interesting trials will take place tomorrow. Seven armour-plates have been affixed to her sides—One 43in from Beale and Co., Sheffield; one 51-in and one 6in from Brown and Co., Millwall ; one 6in and one Sin from the Thames Iron Company (the latter being manufac tured from iron imported from Norway); and two 4i-in French plates. The screw steamship Princess Royal, 73, Capt. Jones, flag of Rear Admiral G. St. Vincent King, C. 8., left Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternoon for the Cape of Good Hope Station. The sere* steam frigate Galatea, 26, Captain Rochfort Maguire, was taken into do3k at Devon port on Saturday to make good her defects. The screw steam coastguard ship Ajax, 60, Capt. Michael De Courcy, is early expected at Plymouth from Kingston. The screw steam ironcased ship Research, 4, Capt. William Hurst, and the paddlewheel steamsloop Gladiator, 6, at Plymouth, received draughts of seamen and marines on Saturday. The Royal Marine division at Woolwich, which has for some time past been considerably below its allotted strength, was on Saturday further reduced, 5 5 men of the division having been previously exa mined by a medical board, were invalided and dis charged from the service, and 75 recruits were trans ferred to the depot station at Deal k The followin g app o i n t men ts have been made at the Admiralty:—Alfred G. 13, liervey, ntidohiP man, to the Revenge ; F. Day and A. M. Brum mage, asaist. engineer, to the Bulldog ; Lieut. Francis C. R. Baker, to the Excellent, for study ; Lieut. H. Wilkinson, to the Majestic: I f ent. A. H. Webb to the Asia ; Lieut. Godfrey Taylor to the Pembroke; and Lieut. George W. A. :en to the Geyer. The undernamed have been nominated naval cadets :—Joseph Alleyne, Frederick Bell, Archibald W. Cavage, Arthur G. Cuthbert, Henry C. Dawson, Philip A. C. De Crespigny, Arthur Dove, Charles S. Elton, Reginald B. Ful?ord, George K. Gordon, Martin A. Hammill, William P. L. Heyland, Edwin A. Hobson, Walter H. Maher, the Hon. Basil Napier, Michael P. O'Callaghan, Charles G. Robinson, George H. C. Stzpletol3, Ferdinand F. Tupper, George Walmisley, Frank C. Youn ghnsband, Francis G. Jones, Charles M. Le Blanc, George P. Hender son, Reginald Y. Smith, Charles J. Poole, Murray William Gruggen, and William H. Hingston. THE ARMY. Lieut.-Col. Shaw's improved system of gun car riage was tested on Friday at the proof butt in Woolwich Arsenal, in the presence of the Ordnance Select Committee. A6B pounder gun, from which the trunnions had been removed, and which has been mounted on the carriage for the purpose of the experimental trials at Woolwich and Shoeburyness, discharged ten rounds with perfect success. The detachment of the Coldstream Guards, under the command of Lieut. the Hon. Heneage Legge, having completed their course of firing at East bourne, returned to the Wellington Barracks on Wednesday. On the same day detachments from the Ist and 2d battalions of the Coldstreams, con sisting of six officers and 130 men, under the com mand of Cols. Baring and Goodlake, proceeded to Eastbourne for musketry practice. From an order received last week at Woolwich it appears that the War Department have at length decided on introducing the Whitworth rifle as tha future arm of the service. A large number of the rifles have been manufactured and stored at Wool wich, in the Royal Arsenal, for distribution, The whole of the Line regiments now stationed at Al• dershot are ordered to be supplied forthwith. Three companies of the 60th Rifle Brigade, in command of Col. Sir J. Campbell, are ordered to take np their quarters in the Royal Artillery Barracks at Wool wich during the present week, to go through a course of rifle practice in the Plumstead-marsh. They will be equipped with the Whitworth rifle on their arrival. A huge block of iron, cast in the foundry at "Woolwich, weighing 55 tons, and intended as the base of one of the Nasmyth steam hammers used in wielding the gun coils in the Royal gun facto ries, was on Friday hauled out of the foundry to be fixed in its position. Its removal through the Ar senal, which is to be effected by means of double purchase hand engines, in consequence of its enor mous weight, will occupy three days. Mr. St. George, who has been long employed by the Military Store Department in Hyde-park, has been appointed to an important district in North Britain. He will succeed, we believe, Superinten dent Pearce at Edinburgh, the latter gentleman being about to retire. THE INUNDATION AT SHEFFIELD. SHEFFIELD, Sunday. The scene of the flood was visited again to-day by many thousand people, including enormous num bers who had come by train from distant towns. Additional bodies are found daily, but there are still about forty unaccounted for. The district com mittees are labouring hard to mitigate the great distress resulting from the flood. Clothing and other assistance has already been supplied to large numbers of persons who were starving, but the immediate claims are so numerous and pressing that much remains to be done. Great efforts are being made to clear away the mud and filth left in cottages and streets; but though 100 carts are at work, and from 300 to 400 men, the streets are scarcely more passable than they were some days ago, such is the quantity of mud thrown out of houses and cellars. Disinfectants are being freely used, fears being entertained that the cfflivia from the mud, which in the warm weather is already be coming very disagreeable, will generate fevers or other contagious disease, unless the greatest pre cautions are used. The cause of the bursticg of the reservoir gives rise to much comment. An engineer supplies to the Sheffield Independent the following, understood to be an authoritative account of the bursting of the reservoir "Knowing something of the conformation of the rocks about Bradfield, and having visited the dam since the flood, I venture an opinion, which I think is the right one, of the cause of the sad disas ter. In digging for the foundation of the puddle bank the contractors of the water company had to contend with great volumes of water issuing through the fissures of the rocky strata underlying the lower part of the valley. Special engine power had to be used to keep down the water, and a labour of somewhere about twelve months was required to cut off the streams and get a toler ably dry bed for the muddle bank at the depth of 60ft. Having made a good puddle wall, the com pany built their embankment with the soil from the sides and bottom of the valley above, thus having the strata cf the open shelving rock. The puddle wall appears to have been sufficiently thick and strong. Possibly a somewhat broader foundation might have been better ; but I do not in the least believe that the mere pressure on the embankment of any amount of water the dam would hold could have damaged it in the least. The complaints made of the friable character of the soil covering the puddle bank and forming the outer portion of the embank ment are childish. The real cause of the bursting of the resorvoir I take to be this, The rocky bot tom and sides of the valley having been bared, the water in proportion to its quantity and weight found its way through the fissures of the rock into the courses of the springs which proved such a serious obstacle to the laying of the foundations of the puddle bank. As the pressure became great the water forced its way on and on until it undermined the foundations of the puddle bank, probably at last splitting it in two, and causing the crack in the top of the embankment. A remarkable circumstance to be taken into account in ascertaining the cause of the flood is that about 9 o'clock in the evening the water in the dam lowered two feet. This appears to be inexplicable except on the supposition that the water found an inlet into the rocks. The rending away of the outer half of the puddle bank would naturally let down the top of the em bankment outwardly, as it was in fact let down ; and the water, thus rushi .12; over the hollow thus made, would carry the lower part." THE INCREASED VALUE OF THE PROPERTY AND INCOME OF THE NATION during these 40 years has been £90,000,000. The following table shows how it has accrued : NET AMOUNT OP PROPERTY AND INCOME LIABLE TO ASSESSMENT. 1815. 1856. Land .......... £41,521.492 .. £38,153,935 Houseq 16,259,400 .. 48,435,585 Quarries, mines, ironworks, canals, and railways Farmers' profits Funds Trades and professions .. Government departments £152,388,226 .. £242,467,368 These figures are an exceedingly interesting record of the progress of the nation. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Consumption, all nervous, bilious liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only ag gravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta &rabies Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62,914. Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage of Pulmonary consumption, with fearful cough, expectoration, exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheeks, emaciated to a skel e t on . Sh e i s now , thank God, a perfectly healthy, blo om i ng, fleshy Lange, Commissaire de Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Robcrts, of Fernley Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. of Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk , indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted all medical reatment. In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, is 6d; 51b, 11s; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Fortnum and Mason; and all grocers and chemists in every WWII of the United libagdom. Boiler Explosion in Spitalfielcls, The adjourned inquest on the body of Mr. Ilobeet Saunders, who lost his life through the bureting of a boiler in Spitelfielda on Friday week, was resumed on Friday morning last, before Mr. Humphreys, the coroner for East London, at the Neats Tongue Tavern, Great Pearl street. Mr. John Saunders, the proprietor of the premises where the accident took place, stated that the boiler in question was purchased by him from Mr. Shore, boiler-maker, about three years since. At the time of the purchase the maker gave no information as to the amount of pressure it would bear, The engine was generally worked at a pressure of from 351 b. to 381 b. on the square inch. On the morning of the accident, about three minutes before it took place, he noticed the safety valve just beginning to blow off. The pres sure then was 3Slb., which be considered quite safe. John Riven, the engine driver, was on the premises at the time, and it was his duty to know the state ' of the safety valve and water. No one in his employ ever made any complaint against the engine or boiler. The pressure before mentioned was that required to work the lathes and saws. On Mon day three weeks Riven cleaned out the boiler, but made no complaint as to its condition. He did not know the power of the boiler, but the engine was a 10-horse one. There were two safety valves to the boiler, one weighted with llib. and the other with 281 b. and an iron boss. It was the small valve that was blowing off just before the accident. John Raven said he had been an engine-driver for the last 16 years. He had charge of the engine and boiler at Mr. Saunders's mills on the day of the acci dent; he stopped the engine at 1 o'clock, when the pressure was 301 b. He fetched his dinner imme diately after and ate it on the boiler, where he re mained until Mr. Saunders called him off at 20 minutes to 2. He then examined the gauge and found the steam at 351 b. Shortly after it rose to 381 b., and he opened the damper and made up the fire, He left the boiler, however, and proceeded to oil the engine, upon which work he was engaged when the explosion took place. He could not in any way account for it. Mr. John Ives, an engineer from Messrs. Grissell's works, was then examined, and gave the following report of his examination of the remains of the boiler :—The boiler was a Cor nish ore, 20 feet long, with flat ends, the shell 4ft. 2in. in diameter. The internal tube was slightly oval, being 2ft.9in. in its longest diameter, aad 2ft. Bin. in the shortest. The plates were of middling quality, and the workmanship was on'y middling fair. He had no doubt the collapse had been caused by excessive pressure. There was no appearance of any deficiency of water. The valves were not in working order, the lever of the small one working stiff in the joint and between the guiles. From the examination of the boiler he eme id e :ed it would be dangerous to use a greater pressure th.:.'n 301 b. He thought it imperatively necessary to a water-gauge where the persons in charge e'Y the engine were unskilled. Floating water-gauges re,:luired considerable tact and judgment on the part of the' engine-driver. He thought that boiler-makers ought to be compelled by law to stamp the working pressure of a boiler upon the front of it. It was highly dangerous !or unskilled artisans to have the power of raising the pressure as they pleased. From the evidence he had heard he considered that the boiler was not sufficiently strong to execute the work necessary for carrying on Mr. Saunders's business, and that it had been forced beyond its strength. John Raven was recalled and questioned touching the state of the lever of the small safety-valve before the accident, but he persisted in declaring that it worked quite easily both at the joint and in the guide. He allowed that he was uncertain as to the weights on the same lever being 41b. and 71b. re. spectively. The jury, having consulted for a few minutes, returned a verdict of " Accidental death from the explosion of a steam boiler, the said ex plosion being caused by the boiler being worked beyond its strength, owing to the imperfect condi tion of the safety-valve." Appended to the verdict was a recommendation to the effect that a legisla tive enactment should be passed compelling boiler makers to stamp their boilers with their working pressure, allowing none but properly educated and licensed engineers to have charge of engines and boilers, and providing for the periodical examina tion of all boilers by duly qualified inspectors. The Alleged Robbery of £500,000 of Polish Bonds. ---->-- Mr. Stanislas Foerster, who described himself as the agent of Mr. Lemaire, a gun manufacturer, of Liege, and Mr. Stanislas Herniscz, of Ford's Hotel, appeared at the Guildhall on Saturday, before Alderman Besley and Sir R. W. Carden, at the in stance of Mr. De Berg, the Russian Consul-General, to answer the charge of having unlawfully in their possession one hundred bonds, of the value of £27,500, which had been identified as a portion of a large quantity of bonds, to the value of £500,000, alleged to have been stolen from the Russian Go vernment Bank Treasury, at Warsaw, on the 9th of June, 1863. Mr. Poland, instructed by Messrs. W. and H. P. Sharp, the solicitors to the Russian Embassy, con ducted the prosecution ; Mr. Leverson appeared for Mr. Foerster ; and Mr. Ricketts defended Mr. Hernisc z. Mr. Poland said the bonds in question were issued by the " Societe de Credit Foncier," the Polish Landowners' Society at Warsaw, which was under the especial protection of the Emperor of Russia. This society obtained a large quantity of bonds on the Crown lands, which were deposited in the offices of the finance commission at Warsaw. On the 9th of June last year the coffers of the treasury were examined, and it was found that bonds to the amount of £500,000 had been abstracted. As soon as the loss was discovered the fact was advertised throughout Europe, the numbers were publicly notified, and all persons were cautioned against purchasing them. The Russian Government then, in pursuance of the law, claimed a right to have duplicates of the bonds, and such duplicates were accordingly granted by the Landowners' Associa tion, which have superseded the original shares. Sir R. Carden said that might be Russian law, but it was contrary to English law. ' Mr. Poland then detailed the manner in which Mr. Sharp became possessed of these bonds, which has already been fully recorded in our columns, and submitted that he had a right to detain them. He also urged that there was a sufficient case made out for conviction against the defendants. In answer to a question from Sir R. Carden, it was stated that the defendants were not aware when they went to Messrs. Sharp, that they were the solicitors to the Russian Government. Mr. Leverson, on behalf of the defendants, pro posed to call Mr. Lemaire, who claimed to be the owner of the bonds, in order to account for his pos session of them. There was, in fact, an action pend ing to recover them from Mr. Sharp. Aldermen Besley said in that case he must dis miss the summonses. The Legislature never con templated applying the Police Act to a case of such magnitude, and as the objection had been raised that the unlawfully obtaining bonds took place beyond the jurisdiction of this kingdom, he could not go further into the case. _ _ Mr. Leverson elated that these bonds were taken from Mr. Lemaire at the instigation of the Russian agents in Paris, and after explanations had been heard on both sides, the perfect of police returned them to Mr. Lemaire, and reprimanded the authori ties for depriving him of them in the first instance, and this fact Mr. Da Berg was cognisant of. Mr. Alderman Bexley said it was not worth while to discuss the matter further, as it was evidently a case for the Court of Queen's Bench. The parties then retired. Persons who have been in the habit of paying weekly as borrowers of Sewing Machines will do well to apply at once and become members of Messrs. Watts and Co.'s Sewing Machine Clubs. By so doing they will not only save the money they now foolishly throw away, but at the same time secure to themselves the possession of one of the best and most celebrated sewing machines in the world. Every in formation given on application; or by letter addressed, with a stamped envelope, to Messrs. Watts and Co., 12, Beaufort buildings, Strand, London, W.C., where mem re are en -401104 daily between 10 and 4; Saturdays, 10 andS THE SU - N, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1804. The Loss of the Ship Volunteer. OFFICIAL REPORT. The following report has just been received by the Board of Trade : Mauritius, Dec. 26, 1563, The Volunteer, from Mauritius for Calcutta, wrecked Dec. 8 on.tiarguclos Shoals, appears to have been lost by the want of experience and presumption of the master. lie went out of his way fur no purpose connected with the voyage. He neglected the most ordinary precautions. He lost his vessel on a weather shore. There are no extenuat ing circumstancees, unless inexperience can be considered in that light ; and had any life been lost his position would have been a very serious one indeed. The Board beg to draw attention to the circumstance of there not having been a second observer, or any check whatever on the sights of the master. It is impossible now to determine whether the vessel's position at noon, on Dec. 6 was rightly laid down on the chart or not. The navigation of the vessel was in the captain's hands alone. There might have been an error in the watch, in the sigh's, in the working, or in the ,taking the time. This reprehensible system of not seeking the co operation of one of the officers appears not confined to the Volunteer. The master states in his evidence that the same plan was followed by the former master of that vessel (under whom he served), and that as he was taught so he acted. If the first mate had been admitted to the confidence of the captain in the way the Board think he ought 'u have been, there appears reason to believe, from his evidence, that the Volunteer would not have been lost. An error of 30 minutes in the vessel's position by observation, by the effect of an easterly current, was more than sufficient to produce disastrous crnsequences ; but setting aside this particular case, such a system seems fraught with danger to every ship when it is practised. The captain may fall sick, or die suddenly, and he alone knows the error and rates of the chronometer and other matters con nected with the navigation of his ship, the vessel's position, the dange's that lie in her track, &c. ; and an officer suddenly ands himself in command, and, at the same time, in the sxost complete ignorance of what it is of the highest importance he should be intimately acquainted with. Besides, men's faculties rust from want of use, and what guarantee is tiere that an officer who has been syste matically prevented from working the time, taking lunar; &c., should be ready at that sort of work when required of him at a moment's notice. The Board trust that this perni • cious system is conined to but few ships, and that measures may be taken to do away with it once. Most commanders are glad to have officers who are good hands at observation and calculation, and encourage the taking sights of all kinds; and the feelings of a commander suddenly struck down by sickness or accident when in charge of a valuable ship, in perhaps a critical position, with many lives entrusted to his care, troops or emigrants, or even his own officers and crew alone, cannot be very enviable when he reflects that, so far as he knows, he has not an officer fit to replace him as a navigator, having never tested their qualifications in that respect, but even carefully excluded them from participat ing in that duty beyond the working of the dead reckon ing. If the first mate is not the confidant of the captain in these matters, he ought to be, and the Board trust that these remarks on this important subject, whether as re gards life, property, insurers, or commerce generally, will not be lost sigh', of. There are no other charges against Mr. Todhunter than want of experience, consequent ne glect of precaution, and a careless sort of presumption too common to youth. These have led to the loss of his ship, but he deserves credit for the manner in which he be haved after that unfortunate event. There appears to have been no disorder. Proper and reasonable efforts were made to get the ship afloat. The preparations for abandon. ment were made without hurry or confusion, the boats were fitted and victualled, and the officers and crew were brought in safety to the Mauritius; and it would be unjust to Mr. Todhunter not to bring these favourable circum stances to notice, and it would be equally unjust to his offi - cers to suppose that they are not entitled to their full share of commendation in carrying out the commander's orders with zeal and intelligence in effecting these objects. D. \Vann; Harbour-Master, President of the Board. 11. J. BELL, President of the Chamber of Commerce. JAT4ES FRASER, Agent for Lloyd's. Trios. H. MULLENS, Surveyor to the Mauritius Marine Insurance Company. JOHN S. Ennis, Surveyor for the Melbourne Vic toria Insurance Company. Proceedings confirmed. BARE LEY. The Ship John Linn, OFFICIAL REPORT. The following is the official report of Mr. Raffles, of Liverpool, who was deputed by the Board of Trade to in quire into the circumstances attending the abandonment of the ship John Linn : TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS OP TitE COM • MITTEE OF PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE. My Lords,—ln pursuance of your directions, I have held an official investigation into the circumstances attending the abandonment of the ship John Linn, of Liverpaol, which occurred on the evening of the Ist January last, in about littj2o 30 N., and long 37 57 W. In this inquiry I have been assibted by Captains Harris and Cow, as Nautical Assessors, and now beg to report :—That the John Linn was built at St. John, New Brunswick, in the year 1354, and registered at Liverpool in the year 1858, of the burthen of 1,596 10-100 tons. Her length was 205 feet, her breadth 39 8-10, and the depth of her hold from the tonnage deck was 22 feet 4-10. Her original tonnage appears to have been 1,171 fJ7- 100 tons, but having been subsequently raised upon, her gross tonnage became 1,596 10.100, as stated in her register. The John Linn was owned by Mr. David Fernie, merchant, of Liverpool, and was commanded by Mr. Thos. Browning, who holds a certificate of competency as master, dated the 4th of June, 1860. She had a crew of 30 hands, all told, at the time of her abandonment. The John Linn left Liverpool, on the outward voyage, in Dec., 1862, bound to Bombay, and arrived there on the Ist of May, 1863. While at Bombay she was thoroughly caulked from the copper upwards to the gunwale, and does not ap pear to have made any water as she took in her cargo. Having completed her loading, which was of great value, consisting of seeds, spices, dyes, and cotton, which was in sured in Liverpool alone at £120,000, she sailed from Bom bay, staunch and in good condition, on Sept. 16 last, draw ing 22 feet 5 inches aft, and 20 feet 8 inches forward, Dur ing her passage home the ship encountered some heavy weather off the Cape of Good Hope, but does not appear to have strained or to have made any water. On Dec. 7, being then in 1 35 N, and 29 39 W, a leads was discovered, which continued to increase till the evening of Jan, ',when the ship was abandoned. During these 24 days every effort was made to contend against the leak, but to no purpose, and the captain appears to hava Owed his course first for the West Indies, subsequently for tha Caps 4eVerd Islands, the then nearest land, on both of which occasions he was baffled by head wiade. From Dec. 30 to Jan. 2 very bad weather prevail a gala blowing from the S.S.W., which, however unusual in that latitude, was siagulorly confirmed by a reference to the log of the Deogaum, the vessel which fell in with the John Linn after her abandonment, On Dec. 31 all the pumps got hopelessly choked with seed, and they commenced to throw cargo overboard, waking t well in the afterhold for the purpose of baling, which was con tinued till the Felix Bernabo was sighted. The crew were by this time exhausted, the weather continued threatening, night was coming on, and the master of the J ohn Linn, finding the water within 4 feet or 41 feat of her lower hold beams, embraced the offer of the master of the Felix Ber•• nabo, to take himself and crew on board, and they left their vessel, and were carried into Martinique. It may here be added that the captain of the Felix Bernabo, in a letter addressed to the Commissary of Marine at Martinique, asserted that the John Linn appeared to him to be unman • ageable and in a sinking state when he took her master and crew on board. Within 24 hours of the abandonment the Deogaum, commanded by Captain Beaglehole, bound from Callao to Antwerp, fell in with the derelict, but no one boarded her till Sunday morning, at 7 o'clock. The chief mate then went on board in the first boat, and he hailed the Deogaum, reporting the John Linn to be half full of water, which he estimated at 11 feet. Immediately afterwards Capt, Beaglehole and his second mate want on board, and stand ing on the cargo in the lower hold, sounded with a capstan bar and found, as he stated, 3ft. 6in, of water. As the cargo consisted of nine tiers of bags below the cotton, and only three had been removed, it is obvious that he could not have reached the skin of the ship by many feet. In fact, the second mate admitted that when he sounded he struck on something which he took to be a bag. No other soundings were taken, and no attempt vies made to sound the well, although a 7 feet sounding rod was lying on the deck be side the pump. The Deogaum remained by the ship till 2 p.m. on Tuesday the sth, during which time they made no attempt to sail her, but occupied themselves in removing the ship's sails, stores, and furniture. Upon leaving her the chief mate, believing that there was no chance of saving the vessel, upon his solo responsibility set her on tire—an act which, under the circumstances, was not justifiable, and certainly not without consulting his master. The Deogaum sailed slowly away, and the last that was seen of the burn l i - ing vessel was about 11 p.m., her mainmast having previ ously fallen over the side. After hearing the evidence of Capt. Beaglehole and such of his officers and crew as were called, I was clearly of opinion that the evidence failed to substantiate the serious charge which had been made against the master and crew of the John Linn, the gist of which was," • that the ship has been abandoned with 3 feet 6 inches of water only in her hold, whereas it was obvious that in a ship of her size they never touched the bottom in sounding. On the other hand, the evidence of the chief officer and other of the crew of the John Linn, confirmed as it was by the examination of a carefully kept logbook, satisfied me that the master and his ^raw used every exertion to get his ship home, or into a port of safety, and silly abandoned her in extremity, and when he consi dered it necessary to save life, and after 24 days of unre mitting exertion. Under these circumstances, I have had great pleasure in returning to Captain Browning his certi ficate.--I have, &e., J. S. RAFFLES, Police Magistrate. Liverpool, March 15, 1864. We concur in the obove report, H. HARRIS.' j Nautical Amaors , Jour( Cow, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. -- - ~ SATITRDAY REvaaw.—The material of the present Ministry excites in the beholder something- of the interest and admiration which is produced in the mind by the contemplation of some remnant of Cyclopean architecture that has endured from prime val times. It has no particular beauty, and no great suitability for the purpose to which it is ap plied. But it is impossible to think of the difficul ties with which the buildier had to contend, and which he overcame, without heartfelt wonder. To have so adjusted rough angular blocks of stone, not fitting into each other, without cement or mortar of any kind, as to form a stable and lasting edifice, must have required almost superhuman ingenuity. And that is the impression produced on a bystander who contemplates the task which Lord Palmerston has achieved in composing his present Ministry into a structure that has endured so long. Men more opposed in character, more antipathetic in sentiment, than some of those whom he selected for colleagues it would have been difficult to find. And there were no external circumstances to cement them together. There was no principle they held in common, no danger they e.lually feared, no poli tical object they combined to pursue. Nothing but the dexterity of a cunning architect could have fitted them so ingeniously together. But occasion ally the cleverest architect in this style will be puzzled by some stone of a shape so rugged and angles so abnormal that it will fit in nowhere, and only perils the edifice of which it is made to form a part. If current rumour may be trusted, this is much the position which is at this moment filled by Mr. Stansfeld in the eyes of his disquieted leaders. A Ministry representing the Liberal party as it now is,is necessarilyconstracted upon peculiar principles. The natural leadership of course belongs, by Divine right, to the Whigs. It is necessary that they should form a decided majority in the Cabinet, and that the more important offices should be in their hands. But though strong in statesmen,or at least in veteran poli ticians, this historic party is lamentably weak in fol lowers. Those numbers which, mean and prosaic as the consideration may be, are necessary to give practical effect to adroit partisanship are unhap pily not to be supplied by the Whig party! itself. Like the American militia before the civil war, this gallant force consists mainly of generals and colonels. The consequence is that they are compelled to look around them for alliances by which this vulgar con dition of victory may be supplied. The Radicals are prepared to furnish an adequate contingent, for a consideration. A concession or two in matters of principles would do, but, in these days of resting and being thankful, such concessions are a hard matter to furnish. Yet this difficulty is easily overcome, for concessions in matters of place are more acceptable still. Accordingly the arrange ment has been that while, in deference to their in alienable rights, the official drawing-room is occupied by the Whigs, the official steward's-room is generously abandoned to the Radicals. In accordance with this understanding, one of the ablest members of the Radical party, Mr. Stansfeld, was selected for preferment, and the important post of Junior Lord of the Admiralty was offered for his acceptance. Under such circumstances, he evidently finds inexpressible consolation in calling himself, " however unworthy, yet a Minister of the Crown." It might be imagined that this curious arrangement, by which Whig peers and sons of peers get the good places, and Radical talents get the bad ones, was eminently favourable to the former. In practice, however, this does not always turn out to be the case. Alliances with extreme politicians are necessarily hazardous proceedings. When you take a young Whig into your ranks, there are certain important points of waich you may be secure. Yeti may be certain that he will have scrupulously observed every conventional decorum. He will never have displayed any enthusiasm for any cause except at the moment when every one else was mad about it too. Ho will never have acquired equivocal friendships by connection with those doubtful enterprises that are ranged under the categories of treason or patriotism according to their success. But all this safe sobriety is lost directly you venture into a political temperature more elevated than prevails in the tepid climate of the great Whig houses. No doubt, when the Ministers offered a junior lordship of Admiralty to Mr. Stansfeld, they thought they were buying the democracy very cheap. It never seems to have occurred to them that they were taking Mazzini " with all his engagements" into the bargain. For a Government that was already on cold terms with the Emperor of the French, the discoveries of the Procureur-Imperial, and the re marks which they have provoked in England, were certainly untoward. To Mr. Stansfeld himself they would have been harmless if it had not been for the singular want of judgment displayed in his replies. There seems to have been nothing in his actual conduct that any reasonable man would have considered as evidence of more than deplorable in discretion. He was on terms of intimate friendship with an exile, who of coarse was plotting for the restoration of the cause in which he had suffered. Ho naturally aided him to the best of his power in those plans. The only power which a foreign police can exercise over a refu see who has found an asylum here is by tampering with the letters addressed to him through the Post-offices over which they have power. Nothing, therefore, was more intelligible than that Mazzini should have his letters sent to a false address ; and his English friends would naturally bo willing to allow him to make use of their houses for that purpose. So long as the correspondence was confined to political plotting, there was nothing in the proceedings either of Mazzini or of his English ally that was open to reproach. Nothing criminal could be im puted to Mr. Stansfeld unless it was shown that, while he gave this permission, he lux :v that his friend was concerned in organizing a twardp: plot. His troubles have been entirely owing je the singular want of judgment lie dispLvein hi s earlier answers. At first the House was very much disinclined to eater epees the euhject. Investiga tions ioto the private lives of public men are not much to the taste of an gss=Coiy not a few of whose members inhebit houses of the frailest glass. The principle of taking a man to task for the friends with whom he might choose to live was felt to be one that might be carried very far, If Mr. Stans feld had availed himself of this feeling, and had met his questioner with simple and straightforward answers, ho would have heard little more of the matter. That he had been guilty oe Piave impria dance in continuing, altar: he had taken offiae, to allow Mazzini to have letters sent under a feigned name to his house, was acknowledged on Thurs day by his friend s a n d i n e ff ect by himself. Had he admitted frankly on the first night all that he admitted on Thursday, and added a few expressions of regret, nothing more would probably hC,T6 been heard upon the matter. Bat he committed an error, very nearly fatal to the Administration to which he belongs, in betaking himself to rhetorical flourishes instead of straightforward answers. People always believe theee is something wrong in the case of a defendant who runs off into vague declamation. The panegyric upon Mazzini was still more unfortunate. The documents cited by Mr. Hennessy and Sir Henry Straccy show that at least there have been times in his life when Mazzini believed in the lawfulress of tyrannicide. It was very difficult to persuade the House of Commons that Mr. Stansfeld was not cognisant of these writings; and yet, unless he was wholly ignorant of this tendency of Mazzini's mind, it was inexcusable in him to have become a blind participator in schemes of whose character he was ignorant. But these writings would never have been dragged into the light if Mr. Stansfeld had not provoked a scrutiny by his injudicious pane gyric. The result was that Mr. Brand's nerves were rudely shaken ; and the apparent stability of the Government in the eyes of foreign countries has been formidably weakened. LONDON REVIEW.—Some months ago, when a mysterious paragraph appeared in all the news papers informing us that her Majesty had posted notices over Windsor Palace to the effect that no smoking would be tolerated upon the Royal pre mises, a slight thrill of anxiety ran through the country. The impression produced was cons;dered to be of sufficient importance to warrant the semi official communication, which followed a few days after to assure the public, that the caution had not figured on the walls of that portion of the Palace which was devoted to the Prince of Wales. Fo reigners must have been at a loss to understand the question from beginning to end. That Queen Victoria should object to tobacco would be matter, in the eyes of a philosophical Ger man, rather for pity than for alarm, But a stranger would never comprehend the interest felt everywhere when the limes announced the Queen's views, or the relief generally experienced when it beeame further known that the heir to the throne was not to be debarred the privilege of ruin ing his royal constitution by cigars, Foreigners as a general rule watch the sayings and doings of their respective courts with at least as much attention as that which attaches amongst ourselves to the various occupations and journeys of the Queen of England and of her family. Even in Belgium, where there is little of monarchy beyond the name, the Duke of Brabant and his brothers can scarcely enter a shop to buy a pair of Brussels gloves, with out finding their adventure chronicled the next morning in the journals of the metropolis. But the cigars of the Prince of Wales on this occasion pro duced a greater sensation still. With a little more fanning the subject might hate even told upon the funds. The two paragraphs connoted to English ears much more than they denoted to a continental reader. Nothi ng could 'be deemed a greater mis fortune by the majority of the nation than the faintest indication of a dissension, however trivial, I between the Queen and any of her children. Since the deeply lamented death of Prince Albert, the Queen's subjects have been watching her with inte rest and sympathy, and with much concern. Every year that she is preserved to ns adds to the difficul ties of a very difficult position. The heir to the throne has grown into a m tnhood that seems to fulfil the feir hopes universally entertained from the promise of his youth. We look back on the mise rable mischief caused in times not so very distant by differencos between royal parents and their children, and congratulate ourselves that we arc not likely to be harassed by a repetition of the evil. No shadow of the kind could again fall upon the Court without stretching itself far and wide over the nation. Nobody felt, therefore, at all ashamed of exhibiting as much interest—as even Sir Charles Phipps himself—in her Majesty's dislike of tobacco ; or in the amenities invariably observed by one member of the royal family towards another. The jealous anxiety with which English people are all guessing at the sentiments of Queen Victoria about the unhappy Danish war is excusable, even if here and there it begins to take an exaggerated form. Lord Derby pays a visit to her Majesty at Osborne, or King Leopold comes across the channel to stay with her at Windsor, and straightway the tongue of gossip starts off upon its busy round. The leader of the Opposition has been sent for to tell her Majesty whether she is obliged by the Constitution to obey the decision of the Cabinet. Her Majesty's uncle has travelled over to give her counsel on the nice point whether Lord Palmerston is not too hot spirited an adviser. Finally, we learn from the unerring lips of rumour, that her Majesty has made up her mind in case England declares war for Den mark to pass the summer at Coburg in a German castle by herself. All these inventions of the Clubs filter by slow degrees into the country newspapers, and are destined in course of time to become the subject of grave discussion at many a village ale house. The excitement the topics in question cause is partially increased by the evident embarrassment of the Ministry at having to deal with so compli cated a problem as the rival claims of Denmark and of the German Diet. Whenever Lord Russell can not make head or tail of the last despatch from Berlin or from Vienna, his hesitation is at once put down to the account of his loyalty, and his head is supposed to be kept in a state of distraction by his heart. In spite of all the respect professed by Eng lishmen for monarchy as a system of government, they seem to grow nervous and petulant at the least suspicion that the Crown is interfering in the politics of the day. This is a little curious, for nothing can be plainer than that the wearer of the English crown must always of necessity exercise a consider. able personal influence on politics. If there ever was a question in which Royalty was personally interested it is the present. The Queen of England is connected by the closest of all ties with some of the leading actors in the present German movement. Her Majesty understands the way in which Germans view the Slesvig-Holstein affair better, doubtless, than many of her subjects, She sees the allowances that ought to be made for the German Courts which are driven into war by an excited population, and she knows the history of the various influences that are at work in Germany itself. If she cares for England she cannot help being deeply anxious that England should not rush into war without having mastered the rights of the dispute. The death of a wise husband has, moreover, deprived her of the best and most judicious of counsellers. She has a consciousness that things seem to be going wrong, and she has not the benefit of his clear head and his strong hand. If, under all these circumstances, her Majesty were not perplexed and troubled, she "oust be very unlike most other prudent and h'enourable women. In so natural an embarrass7i:ent there is much cause for sympathy and retiree% ECONOMIST.—The number of new companies is an unceasing theme of remark. They fill the city articles ; they swell the advertisement lists of all important papers. Moat men are directors of some company or another. Every object has its company, and most objects have many. Is all this good, or is it bad ? Will it produce great evils, or is it right, rational, normal ? Are we beginning a right course which we should have trodden years ago, unless prohibited and prevented by legislation, or are we engaging in a series of speculations which will soon recall the dreadful phenomena of 1847 and 1857 ? A little inquiry will, we think, show that neither of these extreme opinions is correct. We think it may be proved that, as far as we have gone yet, there lig ground for Caution and discrimination, but no ground for sweeping censure and condemnation. We believe the impetus given to joint stock enter prises to be beneficial and healthy; we believe that it will go much further than its most sanguine pro moters now imagine; but we also think that, like all new benefits, it may easily be changed into a new evil, and that, in matter of fact, some evil which may be distinctly specified is already being prodaced by it. First, let us glance at the recent facts. It appears from the carefully-classified state ment which will be found in the supplement to the Economist of Feb. 20, that in the year 1863, 263 companies were brought before the public, and that the respective nature of these were as follows : Banking companies Financial societies and discount companies Manufacturing or trading companies Oc> Railway l7 Insurance .. 11 Steam and shipping companies Mining .. Hotel companies Gas••• •O 46 Miscellaneous 18 Now, is 263 a gree°' 263 t ? or is it no ~• a number, an excessive number, caution ,e e may impair the reputation for sa - aich we may thi n k we possess w h en we 7, ' inn this number is not au excessive number. Of the merits of the companies we say nothing— nothing at least now,—but we say that their mere multitude is no subject for alarm. In the first place, it is to be considered that the whole of the vast field till now occupied by private partnerships is at length being opened to limited companies. They are trying what part of it they can profitably en gage in, and what part they cannot. They were prohibited till a year or two back, and could not touch either what was fit or what was unfit for them ; it is only within the last eighteen months that the investigation of the true scope and the true limits of joint stock enterprise has been partically begun. Before, by law or custom, the bulk of the trade of the country was in individual hands ; now, for the first time, we are seeing what part is adapted, and what unadapted, for management by corporations. But we should be content to forego the use of this argument. The capital subscribed for these companies is, according to the same authority, £78,135,000, and if we suppose a quarter of this to be paid up, which is an exaggerated corn- potation, the absorbed capital is under £20,000,000. Now, we lately showed that, according to the best analysis and computation, the annual savings of the country amounted tol.:130,000,000,and, therefore, if all these undertakings absorbed new capital to the whole extent of the sum paid up, they would absorb but a trifling part of the annual accumulation of this country. But, further, all these companies do not absorb new capital to the extent of the sum paid up. Many of them are wholly or in part sales of a business already established, already profitable, already absorbing a large capital. Take a case which has occurred this week. Messrs. Morrison, Dillon, and Co., a house in which a colossal fortune has been made, is to be turned into a joint stock company. There is no new capital wanted for that. The goods in the warehouse, and the debts which used to belong to an unlimited partnership of few members now belong to a limited partnership with many members, but the resources of the country are not trenched upon by the traesfer. It is as much a sale as if the purchaser were a new private partnership —as if the firm ceased to be Morrison and Co., and became Jones and Co. It is evident, then, that the mere size and multitude of these companies need not appal us: we have capital for a rest number more if they be profitable. But will they be pro fitable ? To sum up, we do not fear a panic from the bare operations of these companies. We are sure the country has capital enough for them or twice as many. We wish well to the principle 7, o f joint stock enterprise, and are confident of es sential soundn ess . B u t we are appr its Ptensive that some unwholesome and mischievous trade may be generated by undue credit and misjudging money lenders, and that if a panic arose from any other cause, these unhealthy speculations would tend by their collapse to aggravate and intensify it. SPECTATOR.—Does any one object to the general policy of the Ministry, either at home or abroad? Not in the least. Yet no single Minister can make a proposition which commands support, or keep himself altogether clear of personal blame, Lord Palmerston, of course, is au exception. He is never wrong; but this curious result is only at minable by paying him the rather question compliment of supposing that, as Prime Minister, he is not i n th e least responsible f or t h e proceedings ' of his cola leagues. Yet even these last, even Lord Russell, and us unlucky, Th ey manage sin o act as to excite Sir G. Grey • an d t h e underlings, are neLi so much no enthusiasm i n their fevoe-:, wrong on the toes of 60111.: while they tread heavily individual with a crotchet and a bitter tin ague, or some section of fanatics which can live only in a squabble. Without conciliating the majority, they outrage the minority. Probably a large majority of the English people in th e ma i n approve Lord Russell's Polish policy ; yet, by some fatality, he so acted that while the majority regard it with languid indifference, the two extreme par ties, the friends of Russia and the friends of Poland cannot speak on the subject without foaming at th€ mouth. Sir George Grey is an amiable man, a clever man, a good speaker, and personally popular ; w but he is always in hot water. Bat now be for incurred, and justly incurred, general censa,reso, his weakness with reference to the con vict i° ley, and th a t, t oo , w ill go to t h e cre di t of the Tories ley, and that, too, will go to the credit of the ted probably because the affair would have termit: ious so very differently in the hands of the in 3 P, e ,;b e rt and decided Walpole. Then there is Mr. . 1- `," c i. Lowe. Combining the most finished classical eunife, tion with the rough experience of colonial I ,, n d successful beyond most men both in Parliament : 0o in society—here, it would seem, was just t he to conciliate everybody while he served the P° 4 , 3 It has, as a matter of tact, been his destiny to many propositions for th e re f orm o f o ur educati.e; system, and every one ha s b een a s ignal for a P ;i , bub among the clergy, at whi c h th e laity s cer e il ' B mere self-defence obliged to stop their ears. %,, will not pause to comment on what all men re°o ° o f nise, the tact of Mr. Lavard and the discretion oo Sir Robert Peel. But t a k e th e crow nial just ° t of all—take Mr. Gladstone. His propositiosa,oo% /east, are no blunders. Nev e r w as a more bene fi° 13; measure offered to Parliam en t th an the Govern cee Annuities Bill. It opens a future to the labourer ;g hope to the only class in this country wh icli , t ioa hitherto had no hope—and gives them pro te ",i4 against the fraud or the incompetency of then ' io , agitators who govern the so-called friendly skit it Has it met with the support it deserves ? Ira even even safe from the opposition of a knot of met a t ie interested in insurance companies, o r fearful of ? wrath of the Odd Fello ws at the next ele et , i . ° o o And yet, unless it be in i n t ro d uc i ng t h e bill a ' l , or too quietly and speakin g hi s m i n d on th e motiorl i ' oo going into committee a little too plainly, detra e h e, itself can find no fault with Mr. Gladstone. 1 ", s? then, is the meanin g o f th ese s i gns an d portea. , oo , They mean that th e r e i s a C onserva ti v e ren, , cti go t, All these little petty mi s t a k es, a ll thi s wa nt of a few years back would have signified nothing' , o f Governments are always open to the same fo r b l e p fault-finding. But in th e y ou th o f a party, o f its leaders first seat themselves on the stool! to office, it is full of lif e an d h ope , an d no on e cares r , criticise captiously. S ma ll f au lt s are rea dily looked, end every pr o p os i t i on wears a ros eate P . , ei If the Opposition op en th e i r li ps a t h ousan d toar io are ready to defend the Ministry. The malcoateDA are out-talked, out-voted, ridiculed, and c owed. few years go by, and there is a change. SuFP ° T o t f are languid. Some m en h ave got what they Wble and some men see they are not likely to get it', e a measures on which the party were agree d ar e P°4 and on what should b e d one nex t t h ere a re di g eo ences of opinion. Then the Opposition g at i b a d courage. Its attacks are l ess v i gorous ly rePn,",,„ l o and consequently are m ore v i gorous l y p li e d. 3 70 passes over to its side. When hope is gone, fa jt a . sure soon to follow her si s t er , an d govern mentsc„-eri not found themselves o n c h ar i t y a l one. Then ,Iff begin to recognise th e en d i s near. I t i s unt , the Tories are one jot b e tt er orators, or s tateel" eo , 0; or administrators, or th a t th e Lib era l s are or.e worse than they were formerly. But the sur4O rt io of the former are uniting more closely , while ' iv latter party are disintegrating slowly 'under tn e e „)o fluence of their own prosperity. Bel . ',, v i ng this 'y o o the true state of the case, we., use in denying it, no use in making when the Premier's near relative is beaten fo r b !' own county, no use jr . , cry i ng, fool's there is no as Liberals ae ° o "Peace! Pe ße 'il paradise, .1 3P ace. It is better to get out 6'4 Settling keeps us in office but t' f popularity of . fail us arty day. So far as the real Liberals a re ro , cerne the men who care less for power than F''.ess, they will lose n o thi ng . Th e wholesoine A e r io of opposition will stim u l a t e t h e i r energies, satl`or them to exertion for life and warmth. The 'Vivi mere and time servers will be pruned away. Tories, on the other hand, with the sweets 01 taste the embarrassments of power. If Pla ce n ti twelve hundred a y ear were mult i p li e d by tn:',"b, there would not be enough for the crowd 0 1 : 0 0 scure supporters who have not only c l a i ms , but' 0 had, one time or ano th er , a no d f rom T a dpole cl' to , wink from T a p e r, an d th e more eager t h e e xPe e f few tion the keener the di sa pp o i n t ment. O a t of ° for 17 years, the party have no administratorst b a d they cannot cover admini s t ra ti ve bl un d ers by a i ge policy, for their opposition is merely critical, a, Peel's, Peel's, which Mr. Dis rae li lampooned and cl a p Then at last the public, which after all is net,'L v ,ri will, perhaps, begin to see that rest is not s'",si a thing to be thankful for. John Bull will ru' eti himself and want to move on, and if it will ha oc' so desirable a consummation et us have a Tort et vernment by all means. At p resent h e rese;bitef an old gentleman who is plethorically drowsy "„ - F 0 dinner. In vain does his wif e s h a k e him—he °jilt; but for an instant, and then sinks back again o f $ a stentorous snore. I n hi s l et h argy he is 13:1e0 graceful spectacle, but for th e moment i t is llie`.ilo to resist, he m us t h ave hi s s l eep out. 3100;b0 this stupor, this C o n serva ti ve react i on, shoal", Of made the most of by its ad m i rers , for it i sa 5 0 %.• thing that does not l as t l ong, an d is usual If ') lowed by a rather restless ni g /. COUNTRY , MARKETS. —et - day, toad ' °Ea—SATURDAY. There WIIA rit et t IO again a limited show of wheat at 101 . i ,, 5 . Jusinoss was more active, at fully late pri e s' other • nOJ y r Articles former quotations were made. to , , IS3 40 neat, red 37s to 40s Oats . . 3s , to A White do .40s to 44s Beans . to !° do Barley .26s to 32s Peas .... floes ' do Malt, 58s to 60s per qr.; rye, 28s per qr ; to 30s per sack. LEICESTER —SATURDAY. c 5 A fair supply of g ra i n t o -d a y, an d w h ea t was bik e° , l eA at the prices of last w ee k. O a t s an d b eans i n fair reclerso —New white wheat, 42s to 45s ; red, 39s to 41 9 stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, T d °O g g ; new, 32s to 36s per qr.; grindin g , 27 s t o 28 8 ; °. ce 4o`7 25s to 28s; new oats, 21s to 23 s p er 24 s t o ne., ' to pe , old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 26 s t o 32 s per 2 1 ' 6 GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. 3t16 Old white wheat, 43s to 465; red, 38s to 42s Per vir le,, new white, 42s to 465; red, 39s to 41s. Malting ;So t 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s; oats, oldi:0, 265; new, 20s to24s; beans, 34s to 36s ; peas, 34s to NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat, and prices w e bari" the same as on thi s d a y se ' nu i g h t. B est ma lt i og d sold at about late rates. There was a dull delO D oats, beans, and peas. n tot " White wheat. 44s to 47 s 1 R e d wheat........ I to' I Malting barley ...35s to 37s Chevalier bar --- -------- Distilling d 0..... 29s to 30s j Oats.. Flour, 27s 6d to —s Od per sack from the Ww er CIO The supply of wheat NOTTINGHAM o-da today was by no SATURDAY 1,6 d i ( means The demand was firm, and late prices were readily the Barley in better demand for fine sorts; other kiL ds ,, o o l „. slaw of sale. Oats slow at last, week's prices. Beam,„ 4 0 ;; —White wheat, from 42s to 47s ; red wheat, 40 5 0, 4 ' 1 Barley—malting, 30s to 378 ; grinding, 27s to 313,5,i at old, at 24s to 30s ' Od; new, 19s to 255. Beans so'" to 42s per qr, ; new, 348 to 365. 4, Flour, fine, 34s to 38s; seconds, 29s to 32s per °4'.' DUBLIN—FRIDAY. 843 Very few transactions in grain toolc place 0:81011 altogether th trad _ . .118 !o was very dull. Flour slow , c l, downward tendency. 0., 0 s. d. s. d. s. cl,: 01 ° 0 Wheat, white.. 24 0 to 26 6 Oatmeal lO u'iro Do., red 2l 6t024 0 Beans.. .. °° / 0 Do., now - 0 to t , 0 Barley - ° OO . , 0 Oats - 0 Indian corn .... 27 el t. c LADVERTISEMENT.}—tioIIoway's Pills, D i ;10 Bulwark.—Nine-tentlis of the maladies aftlic„tinf ic 4 depend upon a disordered state of the stomach . 11° oct o f Pills correct the first symptoms of indigestion h Y4eW a lif healthily on the gastric juice, and wholesome l 9, 4 ' the liver. They dispel flatulency in incipient in,",l sroi and overcome heat, distention, and pain, attencim,te advanced or neglected cases. These Pills invig ° A r d e a, g o soon restore the dyspeptic from the great and au" d i s oruo pression of strength always accompanying stomach vigal or biliary derangement. They begot cheerfulnefo' d igerd and happiness, Ia rectifying disorders of the ~,01) ` ,11 apparatus, these Pills prove themselves the P ri old preventives of disease. They raise a bulwark a it t, approaching maladies and ptesery freshness,he L4 life. Births. t' 1;• ir o f difITTENDEN..---o [ l the 17th inst., at the ViCa!tt e ;eov lington, Oxon, th e w if e of the Itev. Thos. K.. • 8.D,, of a son. 501' HARVEY.—On the 17th inst,, at Rath ar Cottage' r, thaw, the wife of Chas. Harve E, g of a dalig - .0 1 ,"‘ ROWTON.—On the 15th inst., at y Greenwich, tire' .., Rowton, of a son. ri l e TENNANT.—On the 17th inst., at Liseard-vale , - t er, the wifd of James M. Tennant, Esq., of a clatli'" C 4ll ' Marriages. ~, di ~,.e, BROADBENT—MILNES.—On the 17th inst., at '-' -il i l er' 1 , to st a i ° linghatu Church, John Broadbent, Esq. eldest daughter of Robert Milnes, Esq., ' Of s°u fi ef lingham. , „ v je . , l7° :i BERRYALLN—BRODIE.—On the 16th inst., at 1 % . ', 9 — t o g a ol John Berryman, Esq,, M.D , of St. Jon, N-1"' Ee4' Anne, third daughter of George . Sinclair BrJcbt?' Pembridge-square, London. d Deaths. Pistig FoRD.—O n th e 16 t h i nst., at Blackheath, '.v ir ' of Ford, aged 38. pil'f LOVERIDGE.—On the 18th inst., John T.toveridg ei r , 0 1" f North Bank, Regent's-park, aged 7Cb. MILLER.—On the 16th inst., at Overton, Th °l3l 5 „ot Esq , aged 86. i , roo Ye ' Mortnis.—On the IBth inst., at 79, Park•stree" a tell square, Mr. James Morris, aged 77. figs Sil t MowrimEß.—On the 18th in s t., a t U rdper To ' ira • . rts l Hugh Hamilton Mortimer, E sq , aged 87' At A-1 PATTON.--On the 18th inst t 6 s treeq , a o dupla' Sof ° Hugh Patton, aged 73. TROROLD.—On the 18th inst., at Weels B Y lll:4lSe' Grimsby, Richard Thorold, Es,q. aged 75 , 1 1 ' f _.... ,u; • ~, _______ .."........ „ID ii j IP, London: Printed and Prblished by WILL lAY is ~,, r;'' 4f a of No. 112, Strand, Printer„ at Tun Stnet 0 1 . - co tttl'' Strand, , n the Precinct o,i the 3avoy, 4 . A the Dlistdkesex.7-31wzdAy ; Aiwa 21, 1801..